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renewing your membership question.

2010-03-13T12:28:49Z

on the home page there is a berretta gun giveaway and other very nice prizes as well. it says that all you have to do is join or renew.

i followed the link and it wants me to print out the form and mail it in to yall. i dont have a printer with me on the road and i want to know if i am allready in the drawing or if i can renew on line and get in the drawing that way.

thanks boo-boo

Oh no! It’s a (explative) catfish!

2010-03-11T13:39:18Z

Caught this thing last spring at the end of what was a pretty good walleye trip. Was using a 7 foot light action rod, slip-bobber, and a minnow. It was still very alive after the 45 minute trip home in the live well. Put it in the kids only fishing pond in my towns park to hang out with the other stuff that has magically showed up in it! So far it has been successfully landed by four “Snoopy” poles, and has broken about the same. Hope it is still there to do it again this year! And yes, I look as squirrelly as I act!

Trout Master strikes again

2010-03-10T21:50:27Z

Went out fishing with a buddy of mine to a TOP SECRET location on Sunday. This was the last cast of the day hooked this nice 21” Rainbow. Heres a couple pics. The best part of it is i just started tying my own flies and i caught this on a pattern i was testing.

Headed Hog Hunting…

2010-03-08T08:51:15Z

Well everyone the time has finally came....Making my way down to Oklahoma Thursday night and Im going to Hog hunt Friday, Saturday, and Sunday Morn and drive home Sunday night… Never seen one of these beast in person, should be a good time...(Hopefully we get a couple) Weapon of choice is my bow...Should be interesting...Debating if I should take a high power to just incase they wont come within bow range...Anyone ever been hog hunting???

pictures

2010-03-10T20:53:57Z

why cant i post pics like everyone else (click to enlarge) ive resized them nothing works. ito be able to do them i have to resize or shrink them so far that its pointless to even post. some one tell me how there doing it please

Spring Goose Hunts Anyone?

2009-02-26T21:35:52Z

Well, our Spring Aleutian Goose season has started out here on California’s North Coast, and man has it been tough! There are more birds than ever this year (about 120,000), but they are very wary and fly in tremendously large flocks numbering in the thousands. It seems that people have come out of the woodwork to hunt the spring season this year, and it shows with the amount of skybusting and illegal shooting (such as shooting from roads, sneaking onto other people’s property, etc..). Anyway, I was finally able to bag my first Aleutian of the Spring season today after work, and I’m stoked! I also dropped a 2nd one out of that flock, but somehow it managed to get up and fly away before I could reach it. I really hate when that happens. Anyway, anyone else doing any spring goose hunting? If so, how’s it going?

Hard lesson learned

2010-03-07T21:35:16Z

Most of you know that I spent the past week in Mexico. Well, I came back to a mess that I had to deal with pronto. I had an ice shack on Great Pond here in Central Maine and when I left last weekend, there was 16 inches of ice. I didnt think I had anything to worry about. My answering machine had several messages from people who had seen my shack going down into the ice and eventually open water. Apparently with all the rain we were having over the past week, it opened up the holes that were drilled inside the shack and the draining water just kept expanding the holes. My shack was floating 3/4 submerged in a hole about the size of a house!! To make things worst, it was over 30 ft of water!! The thickness of ice had dwindled to about 12 inches around the hole. A good buddy of mine and myself went out with my atv and drilled a hole 50 feet from the hole and anchored it with a 4 inch pipe and chain. We then had the task of hooking some rigging to the shack. We had two 12 foot planks that we slid out close to the roof and while I held the backside of the planks, my buddy crawled out and managed to hook up to the hitch and to the opposite side eye hook. I thought it was a goner for sure but as I winched it a little, my friend slid the planks down the side and pulled down for all he was worth and she started to tilt. I worked the winch and he kept pulling down and as the water drained from the shack I started to gain more confidence. After a tense 5 minutes, she finally flopped on her side and I pulled it to shore on its side. I got some help from some other fishermen and we tipped her upright again. What a relief!!! It has some damage to the side we were winching from but I can repair it. I have never seen anything like it in my life. Its been a strange winter to say the least. Anybody ever have a similar event?

I.A.T.S.E.

2010-03-05T17:25:29Z

Anyone ever work with, or around, The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees? Their Local 42 assistant BA contacted us to see if we would/could lend them a few bodies during events in our town. Sounds like it might be something to do. Don’t expect it to pay much, but it would get me out of the house.

Any Iowa Hunters Here?

2010-03-08T14:17:43Z

I’m new to the website, anybody here hunt around central Iowa. I’ve lived here in Iowa for almost 4 years and just getting into hunting again. Any good tips...? Any good spots to start out...?

USA Sportsmen Dinner - Louisville, KY March 26, 2010

2010-02-08T15:00:06Z

Attention Union Brothers and Sisters,

The USA is holding a USA Sportsmen’s Dinner, hosted by the IBEW Local 369, in Louisville, KY on March 26, 2010.

Where: IBEW Local 369 Hall
4315 Preston Highway
Louisville, KY 40213

Early Bird Register: February 26th for your chance to win a $200 cash prize!
Registration deadline is March 15, 2010.
To purchase tickets or get more information, contact:
Heather Tazelaar
USA Membership Coordinator
Toll free: 877-872-2211
Office: 615-831-6779

Click this link for more information and to print the flyer:
http://www.unionsportsmen.org/index.php/conservation/category/celebrate_conservation_union_fellowship_with_usa

For more information on future 2010 events for the USA, contact regional Coordinator, Tim Bindl tbindl at trcp dot org